[OWW-Discuss] Announcing PDBWiki

[Jason Kelly]

Noticed that they've already got a letter up here:
http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Draft_letter_to_Science_about_wikifying_genome_information

Maybe we could bring it up at the SC meeting and if people are OK with
it, the SC could sign off on the letter above (they are submitting it
on friday).  I personally think that it has more weight if it's signed
by a volunteer group of scientists that collaborate and share on a
wiki, rather than from folks running a wiki ;)

thanks,
jason

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM, John Cumbers <johncumbers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>  This sounds like something we should be supporting, Lorrie, please could
> you pen a letter of support?  this could either be from you as Managing
> Director of OWW, or from the SC,
> cheers,
> John
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 08/04/2008, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> >  > "Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >
> >  >  > Dear OWW,
> >  >  >
> >  >  > Following the recent discussions about the proposal to 'wikify'
> >  >  > GenBank, I would like to ask for feedback on our 'PDBWiki' project.
> >  >  >
> >  >  > PDBWiki is basically an open experiment towards a wiki-style system
> >  >  > based on the Protein Data Bank (PDB). There is one page per PDB
> entry
> >  >  > where users can add annotations but editing the source data is
> >  >  > currently not allowed.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >     pdbwiki sounds great!
> >  >
> >  >     I also just saw this:
> >  >
> http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Draft_letter_to_Science_about_wikifying_genome_information
> >  >     Should OWW/pdbwiki sign on to the letter?
> >
> >
> > The letter is interesting, and makes some very good points. I think it
> >  would be a shame for OWW not to get on board with this kind of
> >  'awareness' exercise. Currently there are a lot of opinions,
> >  expectations and prejudices surrounding the whole idea of 'community
> >  annotation'. The more scientists who have hands on experience with
> >  wiki (for example), the better we will be able to move towards
> >  improved database systems in biology and bioinformatics.
> >
> >  For us the idea was to start small and to keep things practical.
> >  PDBWiki simply provides a system whereby free-text community
> >  annotation can be applied to each database entry. It will be
> >  interesting to see how this approach pans out.
> >
> >
> >  Dan.
> >
> >
> >
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